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"But will you always be? Soht want the pleasantries of sex without the associated pain that coht with hi vanilla sex with anybody," she said, ht with Søren had ruined the idea of vanilla sex for her forever How could she ever enjoy so the pri about vanilla sex" He brought her hand to his lips and kissed her fingertips "But rest assured, there are other gae and sensual but without the aftermath He can’t show you that world, but I canif you’ll allow it"

Eleanor had looked at hi time And she looked at hih she’d known him for years and considered him a friend, she didn’t knoho he was

"What are you?" she asked, not sure she knehat she meant "To him, I mean I know you’re friends, and I know you’ve known each other a long time and I know about herbut there’s ave a soft chuckle, one that made the hair on her arh it was a compliment, it didn’t sound like one

"I’ at the edge of a rabbit hole Are you sure you want to fall down it?"

"I’ll trade you h of pure surprise

"You" He pointed his finger at her "You are more than you seem"

"I could say the same about you"

She held out her hand and he pulled her off the sofa and straight into his ar between her legs, and his mouth at her mouth

With a dark-eyed s her lips with his The kiss started off slowlygentlyeven carefully, as if Kingsley knew she teetered on the verge of spooking like a startled horse She enjoyed the kiss, the skill of the lips, the taste of his wine-tinged tongue on hers But stillthis wasn’t Søren kissing her, but Kingsley She’d kissed others and felt terrible about it Hoas this okay? Kissing anotherher worries, Kingsley pulled back long enough to whisper, "He wants this for both of us"

"Why?"

Kingsley gave her a seductive grin, one that nearly set her to shivering again

"What father doesn’t want his children to play nice together? Coo play nice"

She took his proffered ar on their way to Kingsley’s bedroo to be afraid of It’s only a gasley opened the door to his bedroom and she saw the dark red room illuminated by dozens of pale yellow taper candles At the end of the bed stood Søren holding sonito--black pants, black shirt open at the neck When he opened his fingers a dozen leather tongues of the flogger lapped at his leg

Only a gasley left her side and walked to Søren

"She’s in a betterhimself of his jacket Underneath the jacket he wore a white shirt and a black vest, intricately embroidered with silver thread "She’ll be in an even better sley, remind medidn’t we have a dream like this once," Søren said as he raised his hand and crooked a finger at her As slowly as she could without getting scolded, she came to stand in front of him Her white collar sat on the end of the bed Søren picked it up and buckled it around her neck without even looking in her eyes He acknowledged only Kingsley’s presence as Kingsley only acknowledged his

"Black hair and green eyespale like you, dark hair like ether," Søren finished "How nice when dreah she doesn’t seeht surprise you"

Eleanor ca at them both Had no one ever told them it was rude to talk about soht in front of the and kept her in, then, oui? Who first?"

"You can decide," he said to Kingsley, so nonchalant as if they were sisley reached into the pocket of his trousers and pulled out a coin "We’ll let the coin decide tonight Heads or tails"

"We win both ways" Søren ran a hand froive her an insinuating slap on the botto at these two beautiful condescending, infuriating men who talked about her like she wasn’t even in the roo Scream? Cry? Slap theave Søren a wink before he flipped the coin The coin came down and Eleanor snatched it out of the air before it landed on Kingsley’s palm The act had been unpremeditated, unplanned, and she saw froed to surprise them both